Willie Brown was the speaker of the California Assembly and then when term limited out of that job became mayor of San Francisco. The man is a political prodigy. With the demographics of 2020 he might well have been elected President in, say, 1992....

Steve SailerKamala Harris is running for President to apply those long, hard lessons in the true nature of politics she learned working under Willie Brown
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All the major categories of entries to the United States—refugees, immigrants, and visitors—are significantly down under the Trump administration for Muslims or applicants from Muslim majority countries.

Baseball’s Hall of Fame shouldn’t continue to overlook someone whose influence on the game has been profound.

Steve SailerI favor admitting Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Bill James to the baseball Hall of Fame, but only after they admit and apologize for their sins during the Steroids Era. James, like almost all Sabermetricians, ignored biggest scandal since Black Sox.
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From the New York Times: Boys in ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Mob Native Elder at Indigenous Peoples March By Sarah Mervosh, Jan. 19, 2019 They were Catholic high school students who came to Washington on a field trip to rally at the March for...

In 1995 leftist anthropologist Jonathan Marks coined the term “human biodiversity” in his book of that name. I came up with the phrase independently but second in history, as I immediately discovered by entering the phrase into the early Alta Vista...

Gideon Lewis-Kraus wrote a long piece in New York Times which is quite critical of the ancient DNA lab at Harvard led by David Reich. It has generated a lot of discussion and comments, themselves ranging from mildly to very critical – by Razib Khan,...

Adherents of both Right and Left share the assumption that history must focus on the actions of white men.

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Steve Sailer"Against the White Male Theory of History" by CHRISTIAN ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ
Unsurprisingly, author of "Against the White Male Theory of History" is himself a white male. White males more likely to have an opinion on a Theory of History than anybody else.
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